St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-08-25
Ole Galeduniam.
SONS OF CALEDONIA IN CHICAGO.
PIeasantries and Facts About Some OF
Them.

dOnia county in Chicago. First of
JAMES ATWOOD swAsEY, d. d. S.
One of the most noted and success
full of the dentists in Chicago is James
A. Swasey. His excellent qualities as
a gentleman, his attachments and his
superior skill in the profession of den
tistry have received merited recOgni-
ton here among those who know him
in a professional way and in the cir
cles in which he moves. He came here
some years ago a stranger, put out his
sign and took his chances amid a sea
of intelligence, experience and scien-
tific attachments in the profession, and
has won and gained his way to the
front ranks of the best and most sue
cessful in the guild. Well, he was
born in North Danville, Caledonia
county, March IL, 1888, of an excellent
parentage. He attended the district
schools there until he arrived at the
age of seventeen and subsequently two
years in Phillips academy at Danville,
when he went to Michigan City and
Joined party of friends on a fishing
and hunting excursion in the North
west for eighteen months, for health,
recreation and physical development
and culture; when he returned to his
native town and remained one year
thence to Beverly, Mass, and COM
menced the requirement of the science
and art of dental surgery in the office
of o. S. Swasey, nj. ID. In the latter
part of 1858 he went to Ipswich, Mass,
and opened an office and practiced five
years thence to Gloucester, Mass, for
four years, after which he rested a
year and came to Chicago in 1868, and
engaged in the practice of dentistry,
in which he has become skilled ex-
pert and been very successful in all re-
spects. He was, of course, completely
"burned out" in the great fire of OctO-
Der, 1871. He resumed practice imme-
diately after the smoke had sufficient
~ cleared away to enable him to see
mouth. He has made a continuous adj
vaneement since, in his profession, and
has invented several practical, useful
and ingenious appliances for the use
of dentists. He is energetic, enterpris-
ing and public spirited in the way OF
the advancement of his profession and
is one of the prime movers in estab-
fishing and in promoting whatever
tends to the consummatiOn of such re-
sults-the mutual benefit of all MEM
bers of the profession. He was one of
the original organizers and founders
and is now, and has been the past four
years, president of the Chicago college
of dental surgery, also one OF the in
structOrs in that excellent college. Is
a member of the American Dental as
ISOLATION, Illinois state and Chicago
city dental societies. He has large
private practice which requires his
own attention and that of several as
sistants. He can have the satisfaction
of knowing that his decided success is
attributable to his own capacity, to his
industry, his skill and his observance
of the highest and best rules of the
profession. His bearing is such as to
inspire and win respect and confidence;
practical, dignified and self-reliant I'M
der the consciousness of his ability to
perform what he promises or under
takes in his profession. He is popular
among the best classes and receives a
large share of their patronage. He is
thoroughly grounded in every detail of
his profession and in the treatment of
difficult cases has no superior in Chi
cagO. He is a noteworthy son of Cal
edonia county which he bears in kind
remembrance.
On May L, 1862, he married Miss
Tuck of Beverly, Mass. They have
in infancy the surviving son, Joseph
Atwood, is now being educated, and is
a bright and promising young man.
He and his family live and he has his
office in his fine apartments at 1923
Michigan Avenue.
WALTER HALVES.
In my last "pleasantries and facts
about the sons of Caledonia county in |
Chicago" l mentioned William Harri-
son Halves, and now add a few words
about younger brother, Walter, also
a printer in Chicago, who learned his
trade in the office of this paper, a fact
which he remembers with pride and
satisfaction, as he does the grand old
county Caledonia and st. JOhnsbury. |
He contemplates visit to his native
place in a few days, and will attend
the birthday anniversary of his aged
father the latter part of August. Mr..
Halves is at present in st. JOhusbury. |
Ed The family consists of five chill
dren three boys and two girls ; the
two brothers in Chicago and Alexander |
G., now in California the sisters are
Mrs. Harvlin Paddock of st. Johns
bury and Elizabeth, who lives with |
her parents.
Walter was born at Barnet in 1916,
but the family moved to st. JOhnsbury |
when he was about two years of age,
and he passed his bOyhoOd and young
manhood in the latter place was edu-
Gated in the schools and academy
there. He learned the mysteries of
the printers art in the Caledonian of
fee, and, judging from what L know of
him hare he learned the trade thor